Come on in and vent. Tell me about your pet peeves.

My pet’s too nice to hate anything.

Oh hang on, oops never mind.

-Idiots who call me and don’t have the decency to hold the phone to their face, so instead they use speakerphone, and after every sentence, scream, “WHAT?!” at me.

-People who repeat what I’m saying as I’m saying it so by the time I’m done, they ask me to repeat it because they didn’t shut their goddamn mouths long enough to listen to me.

-When people do whatever they please, break rules… trample them, in fact, and still find a way to manipulate the system so they don’t get fired.

-Having to repeat myself when I know I don’t mumble and definitely enunciate.

-The way things don’t work or take the longest when you’re in the biggest hurry. Like last night, I thought I dropped my debit card at a bar on Saturday, and of course that was the one time my bank’s website was down.

-When people are too ignorant or lazy to learn/use English… likewise, when people pretend not to speak English when you know they can, because they don’t want to deal with something.

-How my roommate and next door neighbor both insist on parking square with their front doors, turning a 3-space stretch of curb into two oversized spaces and forcing me to park around the corner.

-When people pull some BS asshole move while driving and when I pull around to give them the finger, they don’t notice me doing it because they’re ON THEIR DAMNED CELL PHONE. that one warranted caps, sorry.

-When people bring children/babies into loud action/scary movies and then they scream or make a ruckus.

People who drive below the speed limit.
Crying children in movie theaters.
People who complain about things they have no intention of doing anything about.

@poof There is a lot of hostility in your post. I think you need a vacation. :)

@p&m…Wow! Awesome venting! And caps are great when they are warranted!

@tiny: I’m at work at the moment… LOL… that explains most of my post :)

-Mispronunciation of words that are clearly not pronounced the way they were said.
-People saying something when they have no idea what they’re talking about.
-People who think they’re better than others.
-People who are prejudiced.
-When people spell my name wrong.
-When people tell me things that I don’t care about just because they’re bored, and they’re completely aware that they’re doing it.
-When people ask me to do something that I just can’t say no to because I’m too nice, even though I want to say no.
-When people try to take advantage of me or others.

oooh GQ McBean this is going to be a good thread I imagine. Here are some I can think of right now:
– People who insist on talking about their religion and trying to convert you again and again and again even though you tell them you are not interested.
– Slow drivers on the left lane in the highway
– General ignorance and ethnocentrism
– Narrow mindedness
– people who talk about their bf/gf 24/7. I can hear “he did something SO cute today” stories only so many times. and when i am hanging out with a friend, I want to talk to them and about them, not about their SO.
– People who like to provoke and induce drama in every situation…you know the type.

Okay, that’s what i can think of so far. I’ll probably be back haha.

Whoa, there is a McBean and a MacBean?

i hate tailgaters. drivers who try to push you along in the fast lane when you’re already going 75 or near 80.

Another one I just had happen… when I’m on the phone with a client and I freaking stutter fifty or so times in a row and sound like an utter moron.

speakerphones!! -Rude,rude,rude to not take it off after you answer. Leaving long, involved voice mail messages, and then running your phone number all together really fast, so I have to listen to the whole damn thing again. Don’t get me started on the cell phones while driving. People who push the grocery cart all the way over from the grocery across the street, and then leave it in FRONT of the building, when there is a place in the back to leave them, and the maintenance crew will take them back. People who tell me I am going to hell because I do not practice a (their) Christian religion. Tech support or customer service in India.

Know a guy who named his black lab Peeve!

1. People who don’t look up anything on Snopes before passing along some stupid rumor.
2. People who use Comic Sans MS font.
3. People who hate cigarettes.
4. People who shake their legs repeatedly for no reason.
5. People who assume my research has anything to do with mental health.
6. People who are fat and wear clothes that shouldn’t even be made in their size.
7. Pro-lifers who support the death penalty.
8. Tomatoes.

@Eureka…I had one customer service rep from India tell me that his name was Kevin Smith. Another told me his name was Todd Johnson. They both had very, very strong accents and I thought it was pretty funny.

@GofS…I have actually received a long-a$$ urban myth email written entirely in large (16 pt) red Comic Sans MS font. I wanted to hurt the sender. :-)

@McBean: Hahaha, how atrocious! I bet you regret ever giving that person your email address.

@McBean Why do that do that? Like we are stupid…. And other peeve – the couple down the hall that stumble in drunk every Saturday morning at 3 AM fighting and screaming at each other in the hall! One of these days I am gonig to throw a bucket of cold water on them! People that forward me those hearts and flowers cutesy e-mails saying I love you, and you can see all of the 100 peoples addy’s they forwarded it to!

-Idiots who call me and don’t have the decency to hold the phone to their face, so instead they use speakerphone, and after every sentence, scream, “WHAT?!” at me.

-People who repeat what I’m saying as I’m saying it so by the time I’m done, they ask me to repeat it because they didn’t shut their goddamn mouths long enough to listen to me

I second the above poof!

How about the idiots who have no concept of the word STAT, and act like YOU are the stupid one? Or people with last minute frozen specimens? I mean really, didn’t they know this before they started to freeze it?

Oh, and since when is the doctor’s blood anymore important than anyone else’s?

Biggest beef… anything called SMARSH!!!

I hate hangers. In fact, I hate almost anything with a hook. The sons-of-b’s get caught on everything except what the f they are supposed to hook on. Try to remove a blouse on a hanger from the closet and you end up with 50 hangers attached to the one you want. They multiply. They are impossible to separate. I hate them.

I hate the emails of doom. “I’m sending you this because you’re special. If you waste bandwidth and forward this to 20 people in the next 20 minutes, something really great will happen to you. Really! But if you delete this or ignore it, you will die a slow, horrible death. Like, tomorrow or something.” (You know the type.) Please…if I’m special, don’t send those to me!

- People who feel the need to say my name when addressing me (I know my own name, thankyouverymuch! and if you were a half-decent communicator you wouldn’t need to point out that you’re addressing me!)
– People who assume all call center staff is unhelpful and useless.
– People with smoking-phobia
– People shopping with (not for) small children who clearly don’t want to be there
– Emails that have been forwarded so many times that I can’t see the body in the preview window (these do not get read! they get trashed!)

I was just talking about this with my brother. We can’t stand when, after you apologize to someone about something, they tell you what you did wrong.
Me: I’m sorry I just stepped on your toe.
Person: Yeah, next time watch where you’re going.
or
Me: I’m sorry I didn’t realize you were standing in line.
Person: Well, next time maybe you should look harder

I just said I was sorry!!!!!! I obviously realized my mistake.

I also can’t stand how TV meteorologists are the only person on the news crew who gets blamed for what she presents. You hear the following:
“Wow, Susan you sure missed that thunderstorm in last night’s forecast.”
or
“When are you going to make it rain, Bob?”
But you never hear:
“Thanks Joe, for that war in Iraq.”
or
“Way to make the Cubs lose, Steve.”

Doctors offices who call -It’s An EMERGENCY!! I need someone to come out RIGHT NOW – our sterilizer won’t come on – and then you find out “Well, it started acting up 2 weeks ago….” Or the worst – doctor tried to fix it himself!

@Les…love it!

@Les
I would go out of my way to watch a news show if that were the case – it’d be the best ever!!

An obvious one: I hate meanies and people who harm or neglect children and/or animals.

@PnL: I guess I’m not the only one who felt the need… :-)

Some of my absolute favorite mispronounced words are;
sarcasm.

nuclear=nucular
irregular=illregular
hexagonal[and the likes of it]=hexagon-al

And this list extends on and on and on…lol

GirlofScience: Yes, there are! :-)

flyaway: funny how almost all of those are consistently mispronounced by the President: my pet peeve, yeah just him. i don’t even have to say anything else. everyone knows what i’m talking about. well, okay, fine, just one quote: “Is our children learning?”

- Rubberneckers: those morons that cause a delay that adds 20 minutes to your commute because they had to slow down to see if they could spot some gore near the flashing red lights.

@flyaway: If we’re going down that route…

ask – ax
milk – melk
bagel – beggle
pillow – pellow
crayon – cran
draw – drawr
drawer – draw
wash – warsh
Favre – farve

@flyaway: what about “irregardless” and “unthaw”? I mean, come ON!

@mcbean and flyaway: Ooh, “disorientated”. That really boils my cabbage.

I have one for you. When I ask a student why they are late for class and the answer is ” Cause I barely got here Miss.” DUH! Believe it or not that is a common response.

@poofandmook – “fer” instead of for. Drives me crazy!

Valentine’s Day = Valentime’s Day
Chucky Cheese’s = Chunky Cheese

When someone says “off of”. Also when people don’t pronounce the g in strength or length.

@McBean- Shouldn’t that be St. Valentine’s Day?

@AstroChuck: Yes, it should. But that doesn’t bother me much. I just don’t want somebody asking me to be their Valentime.

Wait a minute…McBRAN? Oh, that’s better. Thanks.

My current pet peeve (aside from what I mentioned here) is a grown woman who talks all “cutesy” and “flirty” in an attempt to get something from me. I’m gay. That sh!t doesn’t work on me. I’d be more inclined to help someone who sounds like a mature adult, not some baby-talking bimbo. Thanks for letting me vent.

*People who stand in front of the elevator doors and don’t make way for you to get off so they can get on. Then give you the dirty look for bumping into them ‘cause they are standing in the middle of the doorway.

*Those rude-niks who walk 3 and 4 abreast on sidewalks, malls, etc. and don’t step aside for other walkers, and again give you the dirty look or snide rebuke for bumping into them because you’re squashed up against the wall or in the garden and did not stop entirely for their party of 17 and make way.

*Children who are allowed to run rampant in public and the ineffectual parents/care givers who allow it. Hey, I’ve got a kid and I know it’s hard when you need to get an errand done and have little choice about bringing the rugger with you. But, you can teach your children manners, expect them to have an “inside voice”, and not allow them to crash all over the place or scream bloody murder because they want a cookie or toy.

*Cold callers and/or telemarketers who get huffy when you don’t want to hear their pitch even when you politely decline. I know it’s just their job, but dont’ be crappy to me. You called me, I didn’t call you. I get to decide who I talk to and who I don’t.

*Press 1 for account services
Press 2 for central accounting
Press 3 for some other crap that does not pertain to what you are calling about
Press 4 to go into oblivion
Press 5 for more options
Press 6 if you’d like to hear this again….ARGH!!!!

Thank you for listening!
:)

@breedmitch: Our pleasure. Thanks for joining our party!

Also, when you hold the door open for someone and they won’t acknowledge it. A simple “thank you” isn’t that difficult, is it?

AstroChuck—so true, so true.
How about people who screw up the works by insisting that you make your turn before they go straight through the intersection or other “just being polite” actions that are actually worse than if they just followed the general rules.

@AC: When you let someone “in” in traffic, and they don’t acknowledge it!

SPAM!!!!! I hate it with the white hot intensity of 1000 suns! I especially hate it when the flipping spammers somehow make it look as though it’s coming from my own email address. How are they doing that?

@ breedmitch – we call them Twinkies. Their voice goes up at the end of every sentence, like they are asking a question! I always wait for them to say “Oh, I could never do that, cause I’m a girl – will you buy me something?”

Slow lane drivers who insist on driving in the fast lane…and won’t move over. Ever.

McBean- No one is forcing you to buy the stuff. There are other canned meats, you know.

@breed & Eureka: Straight women hate those damn twinkies, too!

I also hate how I could be sitting at my desk, waiting for the phone to ring for hours, but the second I open Fluther or something, it rings.

@AstroChuck: heh heh…very true. I suppose I wouldn’t get so hot and bothered if someone sent some deviled ham or smoked oysters once in a while.

I actually dated a guy – a radio personality known for his deep and awesome voice – who baby talked to me when we were alone together. (note: adults who baby-talk to other adults are a pet peeve of mine; especially if they’re doing it to me.) It was sickening and amazing to hear his whispered little lisp one minute and then hear him pick up the phone with a deep bass ”Hello?” the next. Blech.

Working with people that think because they have been doing the same job for 20 years, they don’t have to do shit anymore. I hope your reading this over my shoulder Ernie. :)

Trolls…and I think we have a new one.

I hate to resort to begging, but won’t someone please just put me over the top. I’ve been hovering just below 5000 for so long now!

-Someone that doesn’t use their blinker/signal light and cuts me off.
Especially on the freeway.

-When people poke me to get my attention. It makes me twitch.

-my names Hannah. I work in retail and when I am ringing up a customer their little girl is amazed that I’m Hannah and they have to whisper that to their mother/father etc. They think I stoler her name. I smile but deep down inside I’m annoyed more then ever.

-When guys hoot and holler at me/my little sisters/or friends like we are some piece of meet. I can’t help but give them the finger… But often wonder, what if they got mad and attacked me? I hate feeling like I can’t stand up for myself. Maybe I need to take karate lessons or something.

-Girls that dress promiscuous, go to bars, and get intoxicated, and come home complaining that there are no good guys out there. And don’t get why they can’t take their eyes off their chests. (my cousins friends is like this and I can’t stand it).

@AC: done

Thanks. I needed that. Carry on.

Spam sales calls – and you pick up the phone and hear “please hold for ******” Excuse me? YOU called me!

The guy who designed my kitchen and forgot that storage and counter space might be important for good function. I’d like a voodoo doll of him.

People (friends and acquaintances) who call you up and then spend over 1/2 the time conversing with somebody else while you wait on the phone for them to get back to your conversation. Now, why did they call when they could have a perfectly good conversation with whomever they hanging out with at home?

Airport workers that get their hands on a mic/PA system and (probably) shove it into their mouth before making an announcment that not a single person can understand, causing a stampede as everybody rushes to their gates – just in case.

convenient ignorance
ass-kissing
bright blue eye shadow
belly piercings on anyone over the age of 25.
short t-shirts worn by those that obviously shouldn’t
‘spitters’...when talking.
boastfulness
kids with no discipline…and parents’ who think they’re too cool to do so
parents who smoke in vehicles with kids in the car and the windows rolled up..WTF!
backstabbing friends

I could go on…but these are the biggies.

@mee_ouch: Those are big biggies. But do feel free to go on. :-)

I also wonder about low rider jeans on women (and even girls) who just shouldn’t go there. I mean, do they think we want to see that?

How could I have missed that one McB?!!!
Ahhh, humans can be so predictable….but it’s the unpredictable, non-conformists that I find fascinating!
They’re the ones that make the world go round! Hats off to individuality!

People who get off a plane and greet their relatives with a big scene without moving out of the traffic path.

Chain letters or chain emails.

People who talk about what other people should or should not wear. Gorgeous yourself every day? Never dressed poorly in your life? Have no other flaws yourself? Don’t own a single pair of short shorts that say Baby on the ass or any see-through or low-cut items? Who died and made you fashion god to the world?

A big Meeouch to you Marina…
Couldn’t have said it better!
You deserve more than great….how’s’about a GRRRRREAT

@Marina: Some of us have impeccable taste, are truly gorgeous every day, and no, have never dressed poorly a day in our lives. Therefore, we have every right to judge. :)

I don’t think there’s anything wrong when someone finds it gross that a guy’s stomach is hanging over his pants and out his shirt, or a girl just can’t admit that her jeans are too tiny and she has a wicked muffintop… or that her jeans are too low and her g-string is hanging out.

If you’re big, there are plenty of ways to dress and be attractive and neat, rather than trying to pretend you’re something you’re not.

I completely agree poof! I have two female friends who are roughly the same size, and one always looks really classy and just adorable, and the other always looks incredibly skanky and a lot fatter than she actually is because she wears jeans and tops that are 2 or 3 sizes too small for her, so her stomach has nooo place to go but out. I have an extreme aversion to seeing her belly all the time, and it seems like there’s no way to tell her without it sounding rude, so I just don’t, but I do cringe on the inside….
It’s not about size, it’s about wearing clothing that fits!
Maybe I shouldn’t be casting stones, but I’m just really sick of it!

Along the “fashion disaster” line, what’s up with men thinking it’s okay to go shirtless on a city street, the bus, etc? I know it’s warm out, but jeepers…you are NOT (I repeat) NOT that good looking that I want to see your hairy, sweaty upper body without a shirt.

AND…one more thing, what’s up with the double standard for overweight people? When a guy is overweight he’s “big” or “husky” or “burly”. When a woman is overweight she’s “fat”, “obese”, “disgusting”. Why is it okay for overweight (sometimes obese) men to be on TV shows & movies and be stars, but not overweight women?
ARGH…that really peeves me.

Me too!! Even on fluther!! We had this reaaaaaaaaaaally epic question about “why are american women so fat?” and nikipedia (i believe) cited a study that american men are actually fatter than american women (which i later found numerous sources that state this). it really gets me that there are so few older women, and not-anorexic women, in tv shows and movies.

when i cant find house shoes, hairbrush, deodorant and other necessities of life because teenage son gets dressed “all over the house.”

oh and when inconsiderate drivers pull right up and park at the door of the gas station entrance to run in and get a newspaper, coffee or lottery tickets.

…little dogs in ‘purses’....
...“loud” talkers in obviously “quiet” places…
...people who ‘crack’berry and use their mobile while driving….
...PDA….while in the company of little children..
...speedos….on anyone other than a swim-meet competitor
...people who live in ‘glass houses’...and those who ‘throw rocks at them’.
Public disdain for and ignorance with regards to child neglect.
Babies having babies.
Abuse of the welfare system
Lawn “jockeys”
Friends/family that show up unannounced….especially drunk
Those who borrow money…..and are seen consistently ‘spending’....

Ass kissers, I disike ass kissers, this is a huge pet peeve of mine, they can’t be trusted.

ass-kisser – a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.
kiss (someone’s) ass – to try too hard to please someone and to agree with everything they say, in a way which other people find unpleasant.